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The Case of Palestine Revisited
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POWER VERSUS TRUTH - The Case of Palestine Revisited
by Anis Hamadeh - April 14, 2012
A clearer conflict constellation can hardly be imagined: there are two societie...(Continue)
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Date: Monday, May 07, 2012 Group: Articles
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Gaza: Long History of Wars and Defiance
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By – Saeb Shaath
Gaza is one of the world’s oldest living cities. It is a city held to be of major strategic importance. It was the only overland route between ...(Continue)
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Date: Sunday, May 06, 2012 Group: Articles
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Four Palestinians killed in besieged Gaza
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Three Palestinian children were burnt to death in a fire started by a candle being used due to lack of electricity in the Gaza Strip, which has been under crippling Israeli bl... (Continue)
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Date: Monday, April 02, 2012 Group: Articles
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Palestinians Denied Essentials to Life
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Gaza’s hospitals, including al-Shifa (Gaza’s largest medical complex), “fac(e) severe difficulties in providing basis services….” As a result, t... (Continue)
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Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 Group: Articles
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Hana Shalabi at risk of "imminent death"
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Hana al-Shalabi is at risk of “imminent death” after more than a month on hunger strike against her violent, arbitrary detention by Israel has led to a serious det... (Continue)
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Date: Sunday, March 25, 2012 Group: Articles
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Hana Shalabi refuses to play by Israeli rules
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By Daoud Kuttab
Hana Shalabi has been on hunger strike for over a month. Her condition has been deteriorating so badly that prison officials had to transfer her to a Haifa ...(Continue)
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Date: Sunday, March 25, 2012 Group: Articles
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Rights Group says Targeted Killing a Crime
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The Euro-Mediterranean Observatory for Human Rights (EMOHR) Saturday stressed that the continued Israeli policy of what it called “assassination of wanted people” ...(Continue)
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Date: Sunday, March 11, 2012 Group: Articles
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Gaza: Long History of Wars and Defiance
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by: Dr. Saeb Shaath
Gaza is one of the world’s oldest living cities. It is a city held to be of major strategic importance. It was the only overland route betwe...(Continue)
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Date: Thursday, March 08, 2012 Group: Articles
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No evidence proving ‘Israel’ ever existed
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By FRANCIS HUGHES
The state of ‘Israel’ was conceived by the Zionist Lobby at the end of the 19th Century .Agreed by the British with the Balfour Declaration du...(Continue)
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Date: Thursday, March 08, 2012 Group: Articles
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Khader Adnan: A selfless Palestinian hero
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By Daoud Kuttab
It might have been a small gesture, but it spoke volumes. After Khader Adnan, the Palestinian administrative detainee on his 66th day of hunger strike agr...(Continue)
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Date: Sunday, February 26, 2012 Group: Articles
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The brutal reality of post-strike Israel
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No one could have done a better job of describing the mysterious agreement between the Finance Ministry and the Histadrut labor federation over the general strike than Finance...(Continue)
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Date: Monday, February 13, 2012 Group: Articles
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Israel fears 'Internet terror'
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By Allyn Fisher-Ilan
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -- Israeli officials said on Friday they were concerned the country may be under cyber attack after a wave of credit card code th...(Continue)
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Date: Saturday, January 07, 2012 Group: Articles
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Analysis: Three years after the war on Gaza
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By Daoud Kuttab
Three years ago the Israeli army initiated a major military offensive against the people of the Gaza Strip with the aim of stopping the shelling from Gaza...(Continue)
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Date: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 Group: Articles
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Inspirations from Palestine in 2011
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By Ramzy Baroud
Mustafa Tamimi was a 28-year-old resident of the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. His meticulously trimmed beard served as the centerpiece of his handsome f...(Continue)
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Date: Sunday, January 01, 2012 Group: Articles
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Will Jerusalem cause a third Intifada?
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By Daoud Kuttab
This may be a journalistic hunch, but I have a feeling that we are about to witness an explosion in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, this time again ov...(Continue)
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Date: Sunday, December 25, 2011 Group: Articles
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Analysis: Behind the mask
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By Ramzy Baroud
Essam al-Batsh and his nephew, Sobhi al-Batsh, are the latest in a long line of reported Palestinian "militants" killed by Israel.
The civilians were ...(Continue)
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Date: Sunday, December 18, 2011 Group: Articles
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In Israel, the life of a Palestinian is cheap
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The pictures from Friday's events in Nabi Saleh are hard to swallow: An Israel Defense Forces soldier opens the back door of an armored military jeep and, from a distance of j...(Continue)
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Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 Group: Articles
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The Arab Awakening and Israel
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Israel is facing the biggest erosion of its strategic environment since its founding. It is alienated from its longtime ally Turkey. Its archenemy Iran is suspected of develop...(Continue)
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Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 Group: Articles
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Israel moving towards 'dictatorship'
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BENJAMIN Netanyahu's right-wing coalition has this week been accused of trying to turn Israel into a ''dictatorship'' after it introduced legislation to ''tame'' judges and hu...(Continue)
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Date: Saturday, November 19, 2011 Group: Articles
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Barghouti's fate now firmly in Israel's hands
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By Tom Perry
RAMALLAH (Reuters) -- Left out of a prisoner swap between Hamas and Israel, the Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti must now wait for a different type of dea...(Continue)
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Date: Saturday, October 15, 2011 Group: Articles
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Analysis: UN bid teaches us about America
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By Sam Bahour
The case of Palestine's bid for UN membership is teaching us more about the United States than it is about the stubborn Middle East.
Sadly, the United...(Continue)
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Date: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 Group: Articles
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Analysis: US elections and pandering to Israel
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By Bernd Debusmann
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - So much for charges from conservative contenders for the 2012 US presidential elections that Barack Obama is not pro-Israel enough...(Continue)
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Date: Sunday, September 25, 2011 Group: Articles
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Zionist Policies Towards Israeli Arabs
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Israel can claim to be a full democracy only so long as it treats its Arab minority fairly. While the economic gap between Israeli Arabs and Jews remains large, the ruling coa...(Continue)
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Date: Thursday, September 22, 2011 Group: Articles
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Analysis: Palestine's state of mind
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By Daoud Kuttab
The idea of Palestine becoming a permanent member of the United Nations originated, say Palestinians, with none other than US President Barack Obama.
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Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 Group: Articles
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Why does US oppose Palestinian UN bid?
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The US is using all its powers and tools to drop Palestine's application to the UN General Assembly for full membership status in September 22.
From the beginning, the US p...(Continue)
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Date: Monday, September 12, 2011 Group: Articles
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The end of Turkey-Israel relations
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By Steven A. Cook, CFR.org
Last Friday, the Turkish foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, announced what had long been coming - the end of Turkey-Israel relations. Although ...(Continue)
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Date: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 Group: Articles
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Israel Isolates Itself
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By ROGER COHEN
LONDON — Here’s what the United Nations report on Israel’s raid last year on the Turkish-flagged Mavi Marmara had to say about the killing ...(Continue)
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Date: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 Group: Articles
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Arab Spring Leading to Israel’s Fall?
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he so-called Arab Spring claimed its first Israeli casualties on August 18. A “terror squad” coordinated attacks on two buses and two cars, as well as Israeli troo...(Continue)
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Date: Monday, September 05, 2011 Group: Articles
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Israel must offer compensation to Turkey
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As expected, the Palmer Report, issued by the UN investigative committee, over last year's confrontation between Israeli naval commandos and activists onboard Turkish ship the...(Continue)
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Date: Sunday, September 04, 2011 Group: Articles
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Giving Gaza hope
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By Sami Abdel-Shafi — Guardian News & Media Ltd
It is no longer fitting to wonder whether Gaza is a problem: of course it is, and will continue to be for as long as...(Continue)
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Date: Sunday, August 28, 2011 Group: Articles
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US pays for Zionist-oriented policies
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Renowned political thinker, Morgenthau and others agree that a number of internal factors like population, system of government, geographical location, economic out etc. play ...(Continue)
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Date: Thursday, August 04, 2011 Group: Articles
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Analysis: When did the blockade begin?
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By Mya Guarnieri
ATHENS, Greece (Ma'an) -- The flotilla was intended to challenge the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, a closure that has been decried as a violation o...(Continue)
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Date: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 Group: Articles
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Why Netanyahu is suddenly unpopular in Israel
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By Joshua Mitnick
Tel Aviv
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been put firmly on the defensive for the first time since his election, with tens of thousands of ...(Continue)
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Date: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 Group: Articles
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Mossad Was Behind 2011 Oslo Attacks
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By Saman Mohammadi
"By way of deception, thou shall do war."
Last night, I posted a quote by investigative journalist Wayne Madsen who says that Israel's Mossad wa...(Continue)
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Date: Monday, July 25, 2011 Group: Articles
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Israel should apologize to the Turkish people
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In three days, if there are no more delays, the UN panel investigating the events surrounding last year's Gaza flotilla will release its report. It seems that everyone is sick...(Continue)
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Date: Sunday, July 24, 2011 Group: Articles
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Analysis: An urgent need for intervention
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By Ghassan Khatib
Palestinian politicians and analysts were divided in their understanding and evaluation of last week's Quartet failure to agree on a statement promoting t...(Continue)
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Date: Saturday, July 23, 2011 Group: Articles
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More evidence of Israeli racism
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Gulf News
No one should be surprised by the Israeli Knesset's decision to suspend Palestinian Member of Parliament Haneen Zoabi due to her participation in last year's bloo...(Continue)
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Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 Group: Articles
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Next Israeli-Lebanese war looms large
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By Dr. Joseph A. Kechichian, Special to Gulf News
Israel is preparing for its fifth war against Lebanon, as it believes that Beirut is not entitled to offshore natural ga...(Continue)
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Date: Thursday, July 14, 2011 Group: Articles
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Israel, Palestine and Middle East peace
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ARLINGTON, Va., July 11, 2011 – What kind of efforts and attitudes will help improve chances for peace in the world? There are many good statesmen, economists, diplomats...(Continue)
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Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 Group: Articles
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Anti-Zionism growing among Jews
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A large group of Jewish activists opposed to the Zionist ideology are challenging Israel's occupation, racist and colonial policies against Palestinians and calling for the re...(Continue)
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Date: Saturday, July 09, 2011 Group: Articles
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End the Israeli Occupation of Greece
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(ATHENS) - On June 2, 2010, the Greek government sent one of its C-130 transport aircraft to bring thirty-one of its citizens from Tel Aviv back to Greece. It also carried thr...(Continue)
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Date: Monday, July 04, 2011 Group: Articles
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Analysis: The Palestinian third way
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By Daoud Kuttab
The Palestinian leadership is more committed than ever to obtaining statehood through the United Nations General Assembly. But despite this commitment, th...(Continue)
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Date: Saturday, July 02, 2011 Group: Articles
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Obama should condemn Israeli naval blockade
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By Ann Wright
This week, some 40 American citizens, including myself, will peacefully attempt to break Israel's illegal naval blockade of the Gaza Strip. The flotilla tha...(Continue)
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Date: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 Group: Articles
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Violating Palestinian Rights
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by Stephen Lendman
Besides its Knesset, security forces and intelligence services, Israel's High Court and Civil Administration ravage Palestinian civil society repressiv...(Continue)
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Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 Group: Articles
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Waves of attacks against West Bank mosques
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Ali Badwan
In recent months, there have been repeated attacks by Israeli settlers against mosques across the West Bank. They were carried out with the complicity o...(Continue)
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Date: Sunday, June 19, 2011 Group: Articles
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June 5 rallies will set the stage for return
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By Joe Catron
I gasped as the first bullet struck a young man standing a few paces ahead of me. I watched him crumple to the ground on May 15, when Palestinians mark Nakb...(Continue)
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Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 Group: Articles
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Israel must not ignore the Arab Spring
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Three civil wars are going on in the Middle East - in Libya, Syria and Yemen. The Iraqi government is on the brink of dissolution, while Egypt is wavering between a military a...(Continue)
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Date: Monday, June 13, 2011 Group: Articles
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Analysis: Europe's move
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By Tom Moerenhout
The game of diplomacy has come at full speed. The 1967 borders and the recognition of Palestine as a full member of the United Nations in September are ...(Continue)
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Date: Sunday, June 12, 2011 Group: Articles
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The Israeli right’s myth of success
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By Michael Stephens/Doha
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned home a hero after emerging from a bruising encounter with American President Barak Obama. Having...(Continue)
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Date: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 Group: Articles
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Analysis: Revolution at the Rafah border
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By Ramzy Baroud
The Palestinian security officer at the Rafah border was overly polite. He wore a black uniform and walked around self-assuredly, as he instructed weary tra...(Continue)
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Date: Sunday, May 29, 2011 Group: Articles
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Editorial: Obama to the dustbin of history
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By Nasser Lahham
The American president has not yet realized that he is not up to the question of Palestine or the status of Jerusalem, but his speech to the American-Isr...(Continue)
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Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 Group: Articles
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For Palestinians, Every Day is Nakba Day
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As the month began, Israel marked Yom HaShoah, the annual day of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust. At the sounding of air-raid sirens, the nation shut down and sto...(Continue)
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Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 Group: Articles
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Analysis: Obama has adopted Israel's demands
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By Rashid Shahin
In an attempt to tickle the emotions of the Arab masses, for the second time in less than two years, President Obama addressed the Arabs by speaking abou...(Continue)
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Date: Sunday, May 22, 2011 Group: Articles
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Nakba protests: Warning to Israel
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By JONATHAN COOK
They are extraordinary scenes. Film shot on mobile phones captured the moment on May 15 when at least 1,000 Palestinian refugees marched across no-ma...(Continue)
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Date: Friday, May 20, 2011 Group: Articles
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Did the Israeli army have the right to shoot?
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Al Jazeera examines the legality of Israel's use of force on its northern frontier against mass "Nakba" marchers.
On Sunday, Israel's disputed northern frontier saw the first...(Continue)
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Date: Thursday, May 19, 2011 Group: Articles
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Palestine's Hidden History of Nonviolence
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Last weekend, as tens of thousands of unarmed refugees marched toward Israel from all sides in a symbolic effort to reclaim their right of return, the world suddenly discovere...(Continue)
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Date: Thursday, May 19, 2011 Group: Articles
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Analysis: The Nakba continues
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By Rashid Shahin
Nakba, in Arabic, simply means "catastrophe" or "tragedy."
For Palestinians, it is the most tragic nightmare to happen to a whole nation in modern his...(Continue)
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Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 Group: Articles
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Which is more evil, al-Qaeda or Israel?
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This is more than a legitimate question because it is unfair and immoral to keep silent about the indisputably greater evil, e.g. Israel, while demonizing the supposedly lesse...(Continue)
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Date: Saturday, May 14, 2011 Group: Articles
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Israel braces for 'Nakba Day'
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Independence Day over, 'Nakba Day' looming: Israel's defense establishment is preparing for a possibly turbulent weekend as Palestinians mark what they view as the disaster in...(Continue)
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Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Group: Articles
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Israel's blockade of Gaza is cracking
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Egypt has announced that it will open its border crossing with Gaza on a permanent basis, thereby reversing Egypt's collusion with Israel's blockade regime. The interim Foreig...(Continue)
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Date: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 Group: Articles
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Palestinian unity and the new Middle East
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By Ramzy Baroud
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's response to the Hamas-Fatah deal in Cairo was both swift and predictable.
"The Palestinian Authority must ch...(Continue)
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Date: Sunday, May 08, 2011 Group: Articles
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The real challenge of Palestinian unity
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By Michael Broning
After four years of internal schism, Palestinians have agreed on forming a united government backed by the rivaling factions of Hamas and Fatah.
The i...(Continue)
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Date: Thursday, May 05, 2011 Group: Articles
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Bracing for Nakba Day in Israel and Palestine
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Palestine Monitor
As the Israeli military has announced it will increase troop deployment in the Occupied West Bank for the approaching Nakba Day, Palestinian schools and c...(Continue)
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Date: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 Group: Articles
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One word: Bravo
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By Uri Avnery
In one word: Bravo!
The news about the reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas is good for peace. If the final difficulties are ironed out and a...(Continue)
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Date: Monday, May 02, 2011 Group: Articles
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Palestinian identity under attack in Israel
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By Mya Guarnieri
Earlier in April, the Israeli Ministry of Education decided to add a question about the Holocaust to the matriculation exam of Arab students.
Because...(Continue)
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Date: Saturday, April 30, 2011 Group: Articles
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Will Palestine be born this fall?
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By Daoud Kuttab
The chances for the birth of a Palestinian state this fall appear to be 50-50. The world community, including the US, seems to favor the idea, but there is cl...(Continue)
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Date: Friday, April 29, 2011 Group: Articles
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Israel's Sudan Attack and Arms Smuggling
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By Steve Emerson
Sudan claims that Israel was behind an April 5 missile strike on a car in Port Sudan that killed a top Hamas terror operative.
Two men were incinerated in...(Continue)
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Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 Group: Articles
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US weapons to Israel deter peace
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By Josh Ruebner
Israel may be forgiven for failing to realize the current fiscal woes of the United States. After all, US military aid to Israel not only sailed unscathed...(Continue)
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Date: Sunday, April 24, 2011 Group: Articles
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A New Nakba?
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By MYA GUARNIERI
Several weeks ago, Israeli authorities arrested M, a pregnant woman, along with her three-year-old, Israeli-born son. The young family—sans the...(Continue)
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Date: Saturday, April 23, 2011 Group: Articles
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A crime against Palestine
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By Wissam Abu Zeid
The last thing a supporter of the Palestinian cause expects is to be kidnapped and killed in an atrocious way by a “ Palestinian group.”
Vi...(Continue)
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Date: Friday, April 22, 2011 Group: Articles
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Netanyahu's plan: A new spin to an old dance?
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By Mikail Jubran
Over the past few months it has become disturbingly clear that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has neither a clear vision for Israel's future n...(Continue)
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Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 Group: Articles
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Statement by members of UN mission on Gaza war
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In recent days some articles and comments appearing in the press with respect to the report of the United Nations (UN) fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict of 2008-2009 h...(Continue)
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Date: Sunday, April 17, 2011 Group: Articles
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Israel's uneven justice
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By Mya Guarnieri
Last week, Israeli immigration police arrested and deported a three-year-old boy, born and raised in Israel.
The toddler was detained and expelled t...(Continue)
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Date: Saturday, April 16, 2011 Group: Articles
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Factbox: Crime among Israel's political elite
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(Reuters) - Israel's attorney general told Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Wednesday that he faced indictment for fraud, money laundering and witness-tampering, charges ...(Continue)
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Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011 Group: Articles
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Goldstone effect
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The Israeli pummeling of Gaza which has so far killed 18 people should not be seen as mere coincidence. The astonishing turnaround of Richard Goldstone must be factorized. Gol...(Continue)
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Date: Sunday, April 10, 2011 Group: Articles
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Palestinians deserve justice
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By Nabil Sha'ath
Judge Goldstone stunned the world with his op-ed in The Washington Post on April Fool’s Day (“Reconsidering the Goldstone Report on Israel and ...(Continue)
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Date: Saturday, April 09, 2011 Group: Articles
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Goldstone or Post
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By: Curtis F.J. Doebbler
It is unfortunate that Goldstone, after producing a very fair report with two colleagues, has digressed into issuing statements based on false and ...(Continue)
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Date: Thursday, April 07, 2011 Group: Articles
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Heading toward an Israeli apartheid state
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By Daniel Blatman
It has been 60 years since the apartheid state was established in South Africa. In March 1951, a few years after the racist National Party came to power...(Continue)
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Date: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 Group: Articles
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What does Goldstone know now?
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By Abdul-Hakim Salah
Retired justice Richard Goldstone started his opinion piece published Friday on the Washington Post by saying, "We know a lot more today about what h...(Continue)
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Date: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 Group: Articles
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Palestinians on the brink
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By Mikail Jubran
In recent weeks we have witnessed a somewhat stall of the Arab spring. An ongoing civil conflict that is raging in Libya pits the 'ancien regime' against...(Continue)
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Date: Monday, April 04, 2011 Group: Articles
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An Israeli apology is in order
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By Suhail Khalilieh
The Palestinians have been struggling for their rights and independence for more than 60 years with honor and pride. While Palestinians recall their o...(Continue)
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Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 Group: Articles
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Killings in Itamar not acceptable
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By Daoud Kuttab
The brutal and inhumane killings of the Fogel family in Itamar is unacceptable and indefensible. No matter what anyone might say about the illegality of Je...(Continue)
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Date: Saturday, March 19, 2011 Group: Articles
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Gaza after the revolution
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For the U.S. government and media, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been treated as a stepchild of sorts to the revolutionary events sweeping the Middle East. This was cla...(Continue)
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Date: Thursday, March 17, 2011 Group: Articles
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What about Israel's savage actions?
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By Ramzy Baroud, Special to Gulf News
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet announced the addition of several hundred units to four major colony blocks...(Continue)
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Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 Group: Articles
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Editorial: A hasty response
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By Nasser Lahham
The Israeli media response to the murder of five Israeli settlers in Itamar was hasty, reflecting confusion and a failure to adequately understand the sit...(Continue)
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Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 Group: Articles
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PA recalibrating its strategy
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By Daoud Kuttab
For the first time in many months, Palestinian spokesmen appear to be rethinking their political strategy towards liberation and independence.
It is not ...(Continue)
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Date: Sunday, March 13, 2011 Group: Articles
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Will the Palestinians keep silent?
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By Alaa Tartir
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict remains the heart of the persistent crisis in the Middle East. But within the persistent revolutionary wave, new questions o...(Continue)
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Date: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 Group: Articles
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Settlements: US veto
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By MUHAMMED, ALKHOBAR
When the United States of America had a chance to show the world that it supported justice and freedom for the Palestinians, it failed spectacularly!...(Continue)
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Date: Monday, February 28, 2011 Group: Articles
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US veto no way to peace talks
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On Friday February 18, the U.S. vetoed a UN Security Council resolution to condemn illegal Israeli settlements’ construction in the occupied Palestinian territory.
T...(Continue)
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Date: Sunday, February 27, 2011 Group: Articles
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Is the West Bank next?
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If Binyamin Netanyahu's govenment, and its lobby in Washington, were rational they would be rushing to plan Israel's evacuation from the occupied territories, and encoura...(Continue)
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Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Group: Articles
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Abbas and Fayyad should resign too
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After two decades of failed political moves, the Palestinian Authority represented by its top leadership is hoping to avoid the inevitable: paying a heavy price for corruption...(Continue)
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Date: Thursday, February 17, 2011 Group: Articles
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From An Israeli Prison to Tahrir Squar
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As pro-democracy demonstrations sweep across the Middle East, ousting dictators in Tunisia and Egypt, many in the West have expressed surprise that such a strong, sophisticate...(Continue)
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Date: Monday, February 14, 2011 Group: Articles
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How Israel Misses Mubarak
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(IPS) - As Israel's public television aired live pictures of crowds of elated Egyptians celebrating the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak, the anchor suddenly had a telling t...(Continue)
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Date: Sunday, February 13, 2011 Group: Articles
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Rawabi implicates PA in Zionist project
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As the Convener of the Fatah Revolutionary Council Committee on Resistance to the Settlements, the Apartheid Wall and the Ethnic Cleansing it is my responsibility to ensure th...(Continue)
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Date: Thursday, February 10, 2011 Group: Articles
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Is Israel losing ground in UN?
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NEW YORK - Diplomats at the United Nations were harshly critical yesterday of Israel's ongoing failure to appoint a permanent ambassador to the UN, saying it has essentially f...(Continue)
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Date: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 Group: Articles
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Why Israel is worried
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An Israeli observer describes the mood of this country's leadership as it watches the crisis in Egypt: "It varies," he said, "from gloom to doom."
The protesters demanding th...(Continue)
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Date: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 Group: Articles
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Palestine is the key to Arab democracy
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Current events in Egypt and Tunisia have the entire region and beyond glued to their television sets. The all-too-spoken-about Arab street has risen, seemingly from the dead. ...(Continue)
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Date: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 Group: Articles
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Revolt in Egypt, impact on Israel
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An earthquake of epoch-making dimensions is changing the landscape of our region. People are afraid of change. Israelis are no exception. While in neighboring Egypt earth-shat...(Continue)
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Date: Monday, February 07, 2011 Group: Articles
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The death of Israeli democracy
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As Egyptians demand their freedom, I ask a Muslim in Jaffa if we will see the same in Israel. "I don't think so," he answers. "Even with all the mess here, we have democracy."...(Continue)
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Date: Monday, February 07, 2011 Group: Articles
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Crisis in Egypt Tests U.S. Ties With Israel
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The demonstrations against President Hosni Mubarak’s government in Egypt are rocking the relationship between the United States and its most important Arab ally. But the...(Continue)
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Date: Saturday, February 05, 2011 Group: Articles
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Israeli Fears Over Regime Change In Egypt
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Many Israelis have been gripped by TV footage of the unfolding democratic revolution in Cairo - they fear, quite simply, a change of regime in Egypt could endanger the Jewish ...(Continue)
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Date: Saturday, February 05, 2011 Group: Articles
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Israel concerned if Mubarak should fall
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From Egypt to Jordan and Algeria to Yemen, Tunisia's "Jasmine Revolution" has begun to undermine Arab regimes that have for decades maintained their control through fear, anal...(Continue)
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Date: Saturday, January 29, 2011 Group: Articles
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Israelis fear unwinding of political stability
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The recent wave of political protest that has swept Arab countries such as Tunisia and Egypt is also stirring concern in the one regional power that looks completely immune to...(Continue)
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Date: Saturday, January 29, 2011 Group: Articles
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Israel: The ugly truth
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There was that jarring week in December - a protest against Arab-Jewish couples, a south Tel Aviv march and demonstration against migrant workers and African asylum seekers, t...(Continue)
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Date: Sunday, January 23, 2011 Group: Articles
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Israel may be on the eve of revolution
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday characterized the popular revolution in Tunisia as an example of "instability in our region." While Western leaders (and the Arab L...(Continue)
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Date: Saturday, January 22, 2011 Group: Articles
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Israel's Democracy in Jeopardy
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A slew of anti-democratic legislation due to be voted on by the Israeli parliament in the coming months will undermine the country’s democratic values and human rights,&...(Continue)
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Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 Group: Articles
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New Jerusalem settlement hits peace process
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Israel is moving ahead with a project to build 1,400 new homes in predominantly Arab East Jerusalem, a development that critics claim will deliver a death knell to the already...(Continue)
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Date: Monday, January 17, 2011 Group: Articles
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The day after Zionism - Hannah Mermelstein
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As we trudge through the terraced land, ducking under branches of olive trees and trying to avoid prickly bushes, I think about landscape, consciousness, and memory.
We ar...(Continue)
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Date: Monday, January 17, 2011 Group: Articles
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Hamas and women: Clearing misconceptions
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Women in every society have a different perception of their respective roles, which are generally molded by social and cultural norms. Evidently in many parts of the world, th...(Continue)
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Date: Thursday, January 13, 2011 Group: Articles
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A week of racism in Israel
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On a recent Monday, more than 200 Jewish Israelis rallied in Bat Yam, a suburb of Tel Aviv under the banner 'Keep Bat Yam Jewish'. The demonstrators, most of whom were religio...(Continue)
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Date: Sunday, January 09, 2011 Group: Articles
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WikiLeaks and Gaza
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Late last year a Norwegian paper apparently got hold of the trove of U.S. diplomatic cables leaked to WikiLeaks and now is focusing attention on Israeli-Palestinian affairs. T...(Continue)
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Date: Saturday, January 08, 2011 Group: Articles
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Tears and gas: a call to mobilise
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As 2010 came to a close in the West Bank under the regular, weekly cloud of teargas experienced among the villages bordering Israel's 1967 Green Line, 2011 started with t...(Continue)
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Date: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 Group: Articles
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Why Israeli hawks beat drums of war
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The big news coming out of Wiki-Leaks for 2011 is that Israel was planning a full-scale war in the Middle East, as recently as late 2009. According to a cable from the US Emba...(Continue)
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Date: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 Group: Articles
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Mixed year for Palestinians
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After the strong beginnings of 2009, during the Obama administration’s first days in office, 2010 began on a cautious note for the Palestinian cause.
There were some ...(Continue)
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Date: Monday, January 03, 2011 Group: Articles
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Petitioning the Israeli High Court for justice
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The reality of life in the Gaza Strip is hard to convey. Individuals throughout the world have seen the pictures and the images: shootings and maiming, air strikes and artille...(Continue)
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Date: Sunday, January 02, 2011 Group: Articles
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Gaza war victims live in sorrow and silence
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Gaza: It has become clear that not even two whole years after the war on Gaza are enough to either heal the pain or reduce the sorrow of those residing in this afflicted strip...(Continue)
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Date: Saturday, January 01, 2011 Group: Articles
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Persecution of Israeli activists on rise
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Jonathan Pollak, one of Israel's most prominent political dissidents, is no stranger to dangerous situations or arrest in the occupied territories.
In seven years of joini...(Continue)
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Date: Thursday, December 30, 2010 Group: Articles
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Israel, the homeland of brutality and cruelty
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It's not that much of a surprise that Israel has one of the blackest human rights records in the world. It's not expected of the dogmatic regime which relentlessly kills innoc...(Continue)
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Date: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 Group: Articles
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After two years, war looming in Gaza
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Two years have passed since Israel's war on the Gaza Strip, and the people are still bleeding. Its homes have not been reconstructed yet, while young and old continue to hear ...(Continue)
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Date: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 Group: Articles
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WikiLeaks is not shielding Israel
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I've been reading columns by pro-Arab commentators pointing a finger at the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks for not publishing US diplomatic cables that could embarrass Isra...(Continue)
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Date: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 Group: Articles
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Another Gaza war?
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On Thursday, as I hurried into Gaza, that was the question everyone was asking – from news editors in Doha, to the guy who carries luggage through the Erez terminal, to ...(Continue)
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Date: Monday, December 27, 2010 Group: Articles
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US should recognize Palestine
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The United States could energize the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations - presently on hold - by recognizing Palestine formally as a state and establishing full diplomatic relat...(Continue)
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Date: Sunday, December 26, 2010 Group: Articles
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The Palestinian 'legitimacy war'
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There has long been advocacy of the idea that judges in national courts could help strengthen the implementation of global norms by extending the reach of national law, especi...(Continue)
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Date: Saturday, December 25, 2010 Group: Articles
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The facts of Israeli peace efforts
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In what is at least his 27th anti-Israel letter in the past six years, Ray Gordon ("U.S. should cut Israel off," December 17) erroneously charges:
• "Israel doesn't w...(Continue)
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Date: Thursday, December 23, 2010 Group: Articles
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Did WikiLeaks reach a secret deal with Israel?
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The current deluge of WikiLeaks' pirated US diplomatic cables has been a triumph for press freedom and the democratic ideal of open and accountable government, but has mostly ...(Continue)
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Date: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 Group: Articles
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Insisting on humanity
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When a copy of William A. Cook’s latest book, The Plight of the Palestinians arrived in my mailbox, I initially felt a little worried. The volume, featuring the work of ...(Continue)
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Date: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 Group: Articles
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Nuclear bombs and the Israeli elephant
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For the past four decades, there has been an elephant in the room whenever experts and government officials met to discuss nuclear weapons. The elephant is Israel’s size...(Continue)
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Date: Saturday, December 18, 2010 Group: Articles
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US has no power to rein in Israel
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At one point in 2003, then US president George W. Bush asked Condoleezza Rice what the single most difficult obstacle was to peace in the Middle East. Without much thought, th...(Continue)
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Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 Group: Articles
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Netanyahu's coalition is crumbling
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Eighteen months after it was cobbled together with old rope and rusted bolts, the unholy coalition alliance between ultra-Orthodox politicians and their secular and Russian pa...(Continue)
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Date: Monday, December 13, 2010 Group: Articles
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Turkey's rise puts Israel on edge
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For almost two years now, since the Israeli assault on Gaza in December 2008, Turkey's new regional orientations have been subject to intense debate in Israel's academic and m...(Continue)
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Date: Saturday, December 11, 2010 Group: Articles
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Part of the homeland, not the state
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Accusations that Hamas is marketing fundamentalism and extremism in Gaza are false. There is no "Talibanization" of Gaza. Such a claim is based on Israeli propaganda and the d...(Continue)
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Date: Thursday, December 09, 2010 Group: Articles
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Defeat Zionism to end Palestinian suffering
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On Monday, November 29, the world held commemorations dedicated to showing solidarity with the people of Palestine that the United Nations calls Palestine Solidarity Day.
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Date: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 Group: Articles
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Israel and the U.S: A lopsided relationship
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The widely reported deal negotiated by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — Israel committing itself to a nonrenewab...(Continue)
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Date: Monday, December 06, 2010 Group: Articles
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America’s latest bribe to Israel
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The secret talks between US and Israeli officials, aiming at convincing the Israelis to change their position regarding the settlement freeze, started to smell more and more l... (Continue)
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Date: Sunday, November 28, 2010 Group: Articles
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Making peace impossible
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In a move primarily aimed at making it harder to cede occupied Arab land as part of any peace agreement with Syria or the Palestinians, the Israeli Knesset this week approved ... (Continue)
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Date: Friday, November 26, 2010 Group: Articles
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Let Israel keep its freeze
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At the beginning of his term, Barack Obama became the first US president to call for a halt in Jewish settlement construction in the Israeli occupied Palestinian territories a... (Continue)
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Date: Thursday, November 25, 2010 Group: Articles
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Boycott: Put more pressure on Israel to change
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As Israel increasingly ignores our government's objections to the expansion of settlements, its primary concern is with placating its own right-wing parliamentary coalition. A... (Continue)
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Date: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 Group: Articles
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IPAC: Fighting for survival
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The latest Aipac (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) scandal has not found its way into the mainstream media, although the Jewish media has done a great job in highligh... (Continue)
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Date: Sunday, November 21, 2010 Group: Articles
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A coming war with Israel?
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Listening to the statements of Israeli military and government officials, the conclusion that war is immanent is difficult to escape.
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Date: Thursday, November 18, 2010 Group: Articles
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A 90-Day Bet on Mideast Talks
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The pledge by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to push for a new, one-time-only freeze of 90 days on settlement construction in the West Bank re... (Continue)
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Date: Monday, November 15, 2010 Group: Articles
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Why is Obama arming Israel’s enemies?
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For someone who insists his administration is a friend of Israel, Barack Obama sure has a funny way of showing it. Last month, in a move that raised plenty of eyebro... (Continue)
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Date: Sunday, November 14, 2010 Group: Articles
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The Oslo virus and the struggle for Bantustans
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In 'The Music of the Violin,' a short story by South African writer Njabulo Ndebele, one of the characters comments on the 'concessions' made by the apartheid regime to the in... (Continue)
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Date: Saturday, November 13, 2010 Group: Articles
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Israeli building plans test Obama’s clout
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Jerusalem’s municipal government upped the political ante this week with the announcement it was issuing warnings to several Palestinian families in the Arab district of... (Continue)
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Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 Group: Articles
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Dimona, the Middle East's ticking time bomb
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David Ben-Gurion, the founder and first prime minister of the Israeli regime in 1954, presented to his Cabinet a plan called the Strategic Defense Plan which was then approved... (Continue)
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Date: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 Group: Articles
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Israeli Policies Face Jewish Critics
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Acre by acre, successive Israeli governments have used settlement construction to colonize what is left of Palestinian land. Meanwhile, a growing chorus of Jewish critics is f... (Continue)
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Date: Monday, November 08, 2010 Group: Articles
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Israel is right to be concerned
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We can learn much from the Israeli government’s decision this week to suspend a special strategic dialog with the United Kingdom because of concerns that Israeli officia... (Continue)
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Date: Saturday, November 06, 2010 Group: Articles
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Israel's Nuclear Heads Are Trained at Muslims
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The first fact is that the hundreds of nuclear heads and bombs which Israel possesses or is widely assumed to possess are not trained toward Zimbabwe or Gabon or Haiti, but at... (Continue)
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Date: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 Group: Articles
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Israel's choice: Freeze or isolation
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The decision whether or not to continue the freeze on settlement construction is not a momentary, tactical decision. It is a strategic decision with implications for the State... (Continue)
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Date: Monday, November 01, 2010 Group: Articles
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The settlement impasse
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It comes as little surprise that Palestinian-Israeli negotiations are at an impasse. The lesson after nearly two decades of bilateral negotiations is that direct talks alone a... (Continue)
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Date: Sunday, October 31, 2010 Group: Articles
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U.S. Can Put the Squeeze on Israel
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Israel can do whatever it damn pleases, and the Obama administration will never say no -- or so the common wisdom goes. But it isn’t so. Obama has backed down far too of... (Continue)
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Date: Thursday, October 28, 2010 Group: Articles
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What does Netanyahu's new plan imply?
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is preparing to launch a new plan to restart negotiations with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), according to reports by t... (Continue)
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Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 Group: Articles
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Israeli flotilla probe 'a sham'
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For the past few days I've had the delightful task of hanging around the Yitzhak Rabin Guest House in West Jerusalem. I was covering the latest round of questioning by (Israel... (Continue)
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Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 Group: Articles
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Pentagon in charge of aid to Israel?
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In the days leading up to the United States Congress mid-term elections, senior Republicans are contemplating transferring the annual foreign aid responsibilities, provided th... (Continue)
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Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 Group: Articles
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The violence debate
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An American activist once gave me a book she wrote detailing her experiences in Palestine. The largely visual volume documented her journey of the occupied West Bank, rife wit... (Continue)
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Date: Monday, October 25, 2010 Group: Articles
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Legitimizing occupation
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For Palestinians, this was a startling and misguided decision, coming from such a well-respected multilateral player. First, holding this conference in illegally-annexed and I... (Continue)
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Date: Sunday, October 24, 2010 Group: Articles
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Smothered by settlements
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Negotiations between two unequal parties cannot succeed. Success in Palestinian-Israeli negotiations requires a reasonable balance of power, clear terms of reference and abste... (Continue)
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Date: Saturday, October 23, 2010 Group: Articles
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Ambiguity over Israel’s nuclear program
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While Israel is widely regarded as the world’s sixth nuclear power, with scores or possibly hundreds of atomic bombs, it has never acknowledged possessing nuclear weapon... (Continue)
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Date: Thursday, October 21, 2010 Group: Articles
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Israel rebuked at United Nations
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Israel’s approval last week of 238 new Jewish housing units in Arab East Jerusalem provoked widespread condemnation in a United Nations Security Council session Monday f... (Continue)
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Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 Group: Articles
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Cracks widen in Netanyahu's coalition
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Israel's coalition government, led by Binyamin Netanyahu, appears to be in danger of fracturing over the gridlocked peace process and a controversial "loyalty law".
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Date: Sunday, October 17, 2010 Group: Articles
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Danger of Israel's racist demands
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Without any reason, the Israeli government has created a totally artificial problem for all future persons wishing to get citizenship: they will have to pledge allegiance to I... (Continue)
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Date: Saturday, October 16, 2010 Group: Articles
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Israel woos Greece after rift with Turkey
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Earlier this week the Israeli Air Force completed a series of exercises with its Greek counterpart - a sign of the growing links between the two countries. (Continue)
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Date: Saturday, October 16, 2010 Group: Articles
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ISRAEL: Innovation lacking in universities
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Israel may have transformed itself over the past decade into one of the world's vibrant economies, but innovation training is nonetheless sorely lacking in the nation's univer... (Continue)
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Date: Saturday, October 16, 2010 Group: Articles
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Have American Jews lost faith in Obama?
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US president's tough stands regarding Israel seems to be taking its toll as US Jews' support in him falters, contributions to Democratic Party drop 65%. (Continue)
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Date: Saturday, October 16, 2010 Group: Articles
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Zionist Dialectics: Past and Future
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This study has employed a dialectical framework for analyzing the destabilizing logic of Zionism. We have examined this logic as it has unfolded through time, driven by the vi... (Continue)
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Date: Monday, September 20, 2010 Group: Articles
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Israelis risk jail to smuggle Palestinians
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Nearly 600 Israelis have signed up for a campaign of civil disobedience, vowing to risk jail to smuggle Palestinian women and children into Israel for a brief taste of life ou... (Continue)
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Date: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Group: Articles
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Israel tells schools not to teach nakba
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Government officials warned Israeli teachers last week not to cooperate with a civic group that seeks to educate Israelis about how the Palestinians view the loss of their hom... (Continue)
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Date: Sunday, August 22, 2010 Group: Articles
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The US Arms Bonanza in the Middle East
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Two of the United States’ closest allies in the Middle East, Israel and Saudi Arabia, are on the brink of signing large arms deals with the US in a move designed to ratc... (Continue)
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Date: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 Group: Articles
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‘Major George’ and Israel’s Abu Ghraib
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A police officer known as “Major George” who is accused of torturing Arab prisoners in his previous role as chief interrogator in a secret military jail has been a... (Continue)
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Date: Monday, August 09, 2010 Group: Articles
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Bedouin village torn down for second time
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Israeli security forces destroyed a Bedouin village this week for the second time in a matter of days, leaving 300 inhabitants homeless again after they and dozens of Jewish a... (Continue)
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Date: Friday, August 06, 2010 Group: Articles
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Israel retreats on flotilla agreement
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Israel quickly reined back expectations yesterday over its agreement to co-operate with a UN investigation into the Israeli army’s lethal raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotil... (Continue)
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Date: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 Group: Articles
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Israel's false claim
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Both opponents and supporters of Israel's attacks on Gaza fail to see how deep its breach of international law and norms really runs (Continue)
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Date: Saturday, January 17, 2009 Group: Articles
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The Arab 'Right of Return' to Israel
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A media and propaganda campaign has been under way since the Annapolis "peace" conference to legitimate the longstanding demands made on behalf of the Palestinian "Arab refuge... (Continue)
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Date: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 Group: Articles
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